BALTIMORE HONORS BILLIE HOLIDAY

After years of political in-fighting, the city of Baltimore finally has unveiled a statue of jazz great Billie Holiday. The singer was born in 1915 in Baltimore, and the statue in her honor stands 8 1/2 feet high at the corner of Pennsylvania and Lafayette avenues. Elsewhere in the world of jazz tributes, trumpeter Chuck Mangione now holds an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Rochester.